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WorksheetsAP Human Geo - Unit 7 Cities and Urban Land Use
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 21mins
Chicago's relative location near other major city networks gave the urban place a comparative advantage for successful economic growth. This statement best describes Chicago's
threshold
site
situation
density
functional zonation
Tony and Jacob are brothers who decided to move into an old warehouse in downtown New York City and fix it up into slick loft apartment complex. Tony and Jacob's actions are most closely classified as
suburbanization
urban morphology
social stratification
gentrification
redlining
All the following are processes that have contributed to ghettoization in North American cities EXCEPT
blockbusting
redlining
racial steering
green belts
suburbanization
Tokyo is many times larger than the second-ranked city in Japan, thus making Tokyo a(n)
periferico
central business district
hinterland
squatter settlement
primate city
All of the following are common preconditions found in areas that became urban hearths EXCEPT
access to water sources
access to building materials
arable land
a long growing season
social stratification
Which of the following processes most influences the existence of a zone of transition in concentric urban growth patterns?
Exurbanization
Successive immigration
Agglomeration
Decentralization
Zoning
The Latin American city typically differs from the North American city in which of the following ways?
The Latin American city often has higher densities in peripheral zones and less population density in the central business district.
The central business district is more dominant in its influence over its related urban land in the North American city than in the Latin American city
The Latin American city typically does not show as strong a trend toward suburbanization as does the North American city
The North American city shows more influence of the sector model growth patterns than does the Latin American city
The urban realms model is more strongly explanatory and predictive of Latin American urban growth than it is of North American urban growth
Which of the following is the smallest scale of geographic inquiry by the U.S. Census Bureau?
Metropolitan statistical area
Micropolitan statistical area
Metropolitan area
Census tract
County
Which of the following central place functions is most likely to have the highest range of goods and highest threshold population?
Used car lot
High school
Hand-surgery center
Steakhouse
Furniture store
Which of the following is a strong example of postmodern urban landscape?
Cairo, Egypt
Brasilia, Brazil
London, England
Washington, D.C.
Rome, Italy
According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city in Country X has 100,000 inhabitants, how many people will live in Country X's fourth-largest city?
80,000
75,000
50,000
25,000
10,000
The concept of exurbanization is illustrated in which of the following scenarios?
I. Thirty-three-year-old Marqueze and his wife move from Chicago to San Francisco to take advantage of a new job opportunity.
II. Twenty-five-year-old Tina decides to move to the heart of New York City to enjoy cultural vibrancy and diversity during her youth.
III. Fifty-year-olds Margaret and Tom pack up and move to a rural, country-style home outside Louisville, Kentucky, to escape the fast pace of city life.
IV. Nineteen-year-old Marcus decided to move from the city he grew up in to a peripheral farm, both to experience rural labor and to write poetry
I
II and III
I and II
III and IV
I, II, III, and IV
Which of the following is an example of a person working in the nonbasic employment sector?
Assembly-line worker in an iPod factory
Video game software engineer
International public relations agent
University medical researcher
High school English teacher
Which of the following statements correctly describes the economic employment mix that began to emerge in many U.S. cities after World War II?
U.S. cities have become increasingly dominated by industrial activities
Workers' unions are reaching their highest level of influence in American history
Urban jobs are becoming increasingly service oriented and required learned skills
Most U.S. jobs are being outsourced to foreign labor supplies
The majority of U.S. jobs are moving from being consumption related to more of a production orientation
Which of the following best illustrates the concept of a shock city?
Chicago
Paris
Madrid
Osaka
Lagos
Planned communities would most likely be found in what type of urban setting?
Transition zones
CBDs
Perifericos
American suburbs
Ghettos
This model is based in the assumption that growth occurred independently around several major foci, many of which were far away from the CBD and only marginally connected to it.
Sector model
Central place theory
Multiple-nuclei model
Urban realms model
Model of urban evolution
Which of the following rivers was NOT a cultural hearth of urbanism?
Tigris
Euphrated
Huang He
Rhine
Nile
The star-shaped city pattern resulted from the dominance of which transportation system?
Beltways surrounding citites
Lines of public transportation extending from the CBD
Pedestrian walkways within the CBD
Interstate highways linking cities
Roads leading to airports that link cities
The area serviced by a central place is called a
hinterland
sphere of influence
range
threshold
redline
Which of the following would be considered a primate city?
Berlin, Germany
New York City, United States
Beijing, China
Paris, France
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Which of the following best describes the urban hierarchy of settlements?
Town, hamlet, village, metropolis, megalopolis
Village, town, hamlet, metropolis, megalopolis
Megalopolis, metropolis, village, town, hamlet
Hamlet, town, city, metropolis, megalopolis
Hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis
The United Kingdom has established greenbelts around certain cities to prevent what?
Major traffic tie-ups
Urban sprawl
The spread of poverty
Unbearable pollution
Race relations from erupting into riots
According to Ullman and Harris's multiple nuclei model, what develops at the outskirts of core cities?
Airports
Nucleated cities
Edge cities
World cities
First-ring suburbs
What city were the concentric zone model and the sector model based on when they were developed in the early 20th century?
Chicago
London
New York City
Philadelphia
Boston
What do most cities in the developing world have in common?
Urban areas are ringed by shantytowns
The central business district suffers from a lack of resources
The wealthy live in a commuter zone on the edge of the city
Industry is located next to the central business district
None of the above.
The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., is a good example of a(n)
festival landscape
symbolic landscape
military landscape
urban landscpae
postmodern landscape
What one characteristic links megacities?
Each city has an efficient form of mass transportation
Each has a population of more than 10 million people
Each has a world-class airport with connections to each continent
Each possesses financial wealth greater than its gross domestic product
Each follows a model that is focused around the central business district
Medieval cities in Europe usually had what characteristic in common?
Moats
Protective walls
All roads leading to them
Well-developed urban hydrology plans
Sections devoted to specific social classes
Which statement would be the most accurate regarding the bid-rent theory?
Land value is the highest in the central business district, and land value decreases with distance from the CBD
Land value is the highest in the suburbs, resulting in bigger houses
More space is available in the urban core due to the plight of the inner city
More space is available in the suburbs due to higher demand for land there
Land value is constant throughout the urban area due to the high demand for residential space there
Where is the Canadian megalopolis?
British Columbia, including Vancouver and Victoria
Canadian Rockies, including Calgary and Edmonton
Canadian Plains, including Regina and Winnipeg
Canadian St. Lawrence Seaway region, including Toronto and Montreal
Canadian Maritime Provinces, including St. John's and Halifax
Latin American cities have what common characteristic in the model developed by Dr. Larry Ford?
A spine of high-class housing extending from the city center
Dominance of the suburbs in urban growth
Favelas or squatter settlements in the interior of the central business districts
Three distinct central business districts: colonial, contemporary/traditional, and market zones
Transportation systems that ring the city and do not connect to the central business district
Range and threshold are important to commercial establishments because
without a range, there are not enough customers to support the establishment
without a threshold, the distance is too far for people to go to partake in the goods or services offered
the range determines the maximum distance that people are willing to travel to buy or enjoy something, while the threshold is the minimum number of customers needed for the business to survive
the greater the range, the higher the cost of the item
the greater the threshold, the less the cost of the item
The above cities located within the same country represent what geographic factor?
Urban hierarchy
Rank-size rule
Dispersed settlement
Gentrification
Centralization
A business such as a high-end department store with a high threshold would most likely be located where in the urban framework?
Central business district
First-ring suburb
Third-ring suburb
Near a major interstate exit
Close to the airport
Homer Hoyt's sector model is based on what fundamental principle?
Development is based on the location of amenities
Development is structured around the central business district
Development is based around enterprises such as airports
Development is centered around transportation routes
Development is independent of the central business district
Which is the illegal process by which real estate agents encourage the sale of homes because people of certain races have moved into a neighborhood?
Redlining
Ghettoization
Segregation
White flight
Blockbusting
What is the most noticeable geographic trend in the last 30 years with the respect to the world's twenty most populated citites?
Most of the 20 most populated cities are now located in more developed countries
Compared to 30 years ago, a much larger percentage of the cities are now located in Europe
Most of the 20 cities are now located in less developed countries
Most of the 20 cities are now located in Africa
The specific cities have not changed in 30 years; they have only grown in population
The area in the urban setting with the highest land value, usually located within the central business district, is called what?
Planned community
High lateral investment zone
Peak land value intersection
Third-ring suburb
Tertiary land value
Which world-class city is the best example of an entrepot?
Shanghai
Dubai
Sao Paulo
Madrid
Singapore
